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, media law and the supreme court. he has been a senior writer for american lawyer media. he's been a distinguished lecture in writing at princeton university reporter and supreme court correspondent for "the new york times" and an attorney with wilmer cutler. he's a graduate of princeton university and i believe it is a harvard law school? yes. please welcome stuart taylor. [applause] >> thank you very much and please extend my heartfelt thanks to you and cato for giving us this opportunity to try to talk about our new book. as rick said i'm the focus more on the case in the supreme court and i will give the basics of that case and then i will talk a little bit about the relevance of our books evidence about mismatched etc. to the case. this case we didn't know about this case when we started the book and the case doesn't dwell on the issues the book focuses on but we think that the solutions to the issues the book focuses on are pretty similar to the solutions to the overall racial preference problem basically reduci
, media law and the supreme court. he has been a senior writer for american lawyer media. he's been a distinguished lecture in writing at princeton university reporter and supreme court correspondent for "the new york times" and an attorney with wilmer cutler. he's a graduate of princeton university and i believe it is a harvard law school? yes. please welcome stuart taylor. [applause] >> thank you very much and please extend my heartfelt thanks to you and cato for giving us...
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his current focus is on constitutional law, media law and the supreme court. he has been a senior writer for american lawyer media. he is as distinguished lecturer in writing that concern university, reporter in supreme court correspondent for the new york times and an attorney with wilbur cut their and graduate of princeton university and harvard law school please welcome stuart taylor. [applause] >> thank you very much. please accept my heartfelt thanks for giving us this opportunity to talk about a new book. i am going to focus more on the case in the supreme court and i will talk a little bit about the relevance of our book's evidence about "mismatch" etc. to the case. this case, we didn't know about this case when we started this book. and the issues that we focus on, we think the solutions to the issues the book focuses are pretty similar to the solutions to the overall racial preference problem, basically reducing the size of preferences and making them more transparent. abigail fisher is a student who brought this suit. was not admitted to the universi
his current focus is on constitutional law, media law and the supreme court. he has been a senior writer for american lawyer media. he is as distinguished lecturer in writing that concern university, reporter in supreme court correspondent for the new york times and an attorney with wilbur cut their and graduate of princeton university and harvard law school please welcome stuart taylor. [applause] >> thank you very much. please accept my heartfelt thanks for giving us this opportunity to...
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as a law enforcement officer you will read in my book as a law enforcement officer they broke the law and make sure you are penalized for breaking the law. not taking any action neglects further. >> i often say success is a process, not a result. many law enforcement officers i have had the pleasure of meeting and many of the same things that hipolito is saying. the process is not working properly. the politicians are not addressing this issue. we need to take a long hard honest look at what we're doing to help people, help the brothers and sisters in mexico because if we don't do that the problem will continue to grow and continue to take over american cities and expand the inner cities. >> time for a couple more questions. >> hipolito and chris, i would like to ask how you evaluated the decision because it puts a public face on past activities and i certainly think you would have evaluated the exposure it would give you. >> excellent question. i want to say i want to thank my wife for being here because we have been married 38 years. i can't go without thanking her for that. in writ
as a law enforcement officer you will read in my book as a law enforcement officer they broke the law and make sure you are penalized for breaking the law. not taking any action neglects further. >> i often say success is a process, not a result. many law enforcement officers i have had the pleasure of meeting and many of the same things that hipolito is saying. the process is not working properly. the politicians are not addressing this issue. we need to take a long hard honest look at...
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there are those that would stake their entire domestic reputations on this one of those laws. lbj did all those things in one single year. in 1965. [applause] >> reading these books, reading both of these books, i was struck with such awe and admiration of these people. even with all of those lbj's foibles, which many of us are familiar with. i am a true believer for evermore afterwards. mike, would you talk a little bit about what ladybird accomplished? >> after her first accomplishment was to keep lyndon johnson thing while he was doing all of those great things. giving him a safe haven, if you will, an island of peace, as she described it, every day when he was exerting a tremendous effort. in addition to that, she finished jacqueline kennedy's effort to acquire arts for the white house. she lost the committee for the more beautiful capital. beautify washington dc and make it a showplace so that the tourists there and see what could be done in their own hometown. she gave a the head start program the benefit of the white house lawn so that it was elevated to insignificance
there are those that would stake their entire domestic reputations on this one of those laws. lbj did all those things in one single year. in 1965. [applause] >> reading these books, reading both of these books, i was struck with such awe and admiration of these people. even with all of those lbj's foibles, which many of us are familiar with. i am a true believer for evermore afterwards. mike, would you talk a little bit about what ladybird accomplished? >> after her first...
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they were passing right to work laws. they were receiving from you and from the federal government to build military installations that attend the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. states like mississippi, georgia, texas and southern california and arizona and north carolina are all transformed in the post-world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. just think about it. the latest period from 1964 to 2008 could be thought of this kind of the period of sun belt dominance in american presidential history. you think about every president elected from 1964 to 2008 comes from the state on the sun belt. when johnson from texas, richard nixon from california. gerald ford was never elected, so he doesn't count. jimmy carter from georgia, ronald reagan from california. the first george bush via connecticut. bill clinton from arkansas and the second question texas. so too does the natives and so ways a watershed election. it ends the 40 year. the sun belt domi
they were passing right to work laws. they were receiving from you and from the federal government to build military installations that attend the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. states like mississippi, georgia, texas and southern california and arizona and north carolina are all transformed in the post-world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. just think about it. the latest period from 1964 to 2008 could be thought...
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they pay big fees to the law firm. i shouldn't complain about that, but they go through torture to get their permits on private lands, and there's no expansion on public lands at all. there's a pipeline on the drawing boards from alaska all the way down to texas that have been stoppedded by the obama administration even though it was approved by the state department, hillary clinton, and here's the one that -- here's the one that kills me the most. you know the way china is burning our coal? sending it up to the environment? china has agreed with cuba that it's going to drill for oil 20 miles off the coast of cuba which, i think, is 70 miles off the coast of florida? we're not drilling for it? it's our oil. explain that to me. china is going to do it safer than we would do it? we're not drilling because we're afraid of an oil spill, but china is going to extract the oil from the ground in a safer way than we do? this election is going to be two very, very different directions. obama gets re-elected, i say he reaffirms
they pay big fees to the law firm. i shouldn't complain about that, but they go through torture to get their permits on private lands, and there's no expansion on public lands at all. there's a pipeline on the drawing boards from alaska all the way down to texas that have been stoppedded by the obama administration even though it was approved by the state department, hillary clinton, and here's the one that -- here's the one that kills me the most. you know the way china is burning our coal?...
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so the defense of cuba angle really doesn't come through a law for the americans but they are not thinking this through because it doesn't make sense to them. it doesn't sound like the way to defend cuba to do this. away from an american suspect in 1962, would be to do some kind of mutual treaty, warsaw pact like treaty coupled to send lots of conventional weapons which is what they were doing, but not send longer-range missiles that threaten the united states. .. but deterrence only works if the other person knows about it. and at that point the americans had not been told about the missiles not been told to short range or longer each one. >> they had to globalize back behind the decision was the nuclear back. a year before they had extreme superiority in strategic striking power increased and this is the way for khrushchev to recruit that. let's move to another subject of the book. of course kennedy is concerned about the domestic article ramification and certainly there were those even in the joint chiefs of staff who warned if kennedy did not ask strongly, just to be at peace now. the
so the defense of cuba angle really doesn't come through a law for the americans but they are not thinking this through because it doesn't make sense to them. it doesn't sound like the way to defend cuba to do this. away from an american suspect in 1962, would be to do some kind of mutual treaty, warsaw pact like treaty coupled to send lots of conventional weapons which is what they were doing, but not send longer-range missiles that threaten the united states. .. but deterrence only works if...
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he said in a you know law, legislative director seems like a part-time job to make. and what that meant was during the first continuing resolution, there was this sort of orgy of everybody, of very open and kind of glorious process, if a messy one, he did not understand what any of the more because he had no legislative director to explain to him. he did not have a full documentation director because he had been a radio disc jockey. he believed he committed 12. he did not have a congressional website because he said own a computer business. he knew that to do -- to put up the website it only cost next number of dollars, and there are i think only five companies in washington d.c. that have been deemed to secure some debate on that contract, and he found that the prices they were charging more egregious, that back in corpus the cost a lot less, and so did not put up a site for a while. so it became a lot of voices of worst enemy on top of which his wife, it was often the case, congressman that became very, very interested in the personal, very interested and lots of t
he said in a you know law, legislative director seems like a part-time job to make. and what that meant was during the first continuing resolution, there was this sort of orgy of everybody, of very open and kind of glorious process, if a messy one, he did not understand what any of the more because he had no legislative director to explain to him. he did not have a full documentation director because he had been a radio disc jockey. he believed he committed 12. he did not have a congressional...
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penalized for breaking the law. but not taking any action, were neglecting the issue further. >> i often say that success is a process, not a reseller. many law-enforcement officers had the pleasure of meeting up for my life have all said many of the same things that hipolito as saying. the process is not working properly. the politicians aren't addressing this issue. you know, we need to take a long, hard on the slick as to what we are doing to help people, to help our brothers and sisters in mexico because if we don't do that, the problem or continue to grow and take over american cities and expand the inner-city. >> think we've got time for a couple more questions. >> i would like to ask you about how you evaluated the decision to write your book because in the present some past activities, i certainly think he would've designed the exposure it would give you. >> if i may come at the an excellent question, by the way. i want to thank my wife for being here with me because she's been with me for 38 years, so i can
penalized for breaking the law. but not taking any action, were neglecting the issue further. >> i often say that success is a process, not a reseller. many law-enforcement officers had the pleasure of meeting up for my life have all said many of the same things that hipolito as saying. the process is not working properly. the politicians aren't addressing this issue. you know, we need to take a long, hard on the slick as to what we are doing to help people, to help our brothers and...
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we followed the law. america is a nation of laws and so we definitely first of all have have to clean up our laws that have to do with immigration. we can't allow the president the authority to just impose a law that's not been passed by congress. which is of course, what happened on the dream act. and the situation with immigration is one where we have to allow different states to be able to enforce their own laws. and the federal government has not been enforcing the immigration laws and you see a crisis on the border, they have even gone to this fast and furious idea giving high powered rifles to drug dealers and stuff as people are doing human trafficking across our border and somehow we don't have the backbone in the senate and the administration to even enforce our laws. and the first thing off if you're a nation of law, you have to enforce the law. i'm sympathetic for people coming to this country but it has to be done anyone an orderly and legal process. that means businesses also shouldn't be hir
we followed the law. america is a nation of laws and so we definitely first of all have have to clean up our laws that have to do with immigration. we can't allow the president the authority to just impose a law that's not been passed by congress. which is of course, what happened on the dream act. and the situation with immigration is one where we have to allow different states to be able to enforce their own laws. and the federal government has not been enforcing the immigration laws and you...
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they were passing right to work laws. receiving lots of fundings from the federal government to build military at the time when the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so states like mississippi but states like georgia and texas and florida and southern california and arizona and north carolina are being transformed in the postworld war two period by the historic shift as the period of the sun belt dominance. if you think about every president elected from 1963 comes from state of the sun belt. lyndon johnson from texas and richard nixon from california. gerald ford was never elected. he doesn't count. jimmy carter from georgia reagan from california. texas and bill clinton from arkansas and the second bush from texas. so twaict is the water shed election. it ends the forty year period of sun belt dominance. there were issues of critical in the politics that developed that came out of the sun belt. that we see the rise by the 1970 be coming to talk about the religious right. so strom was a
they were passing right to work laws. receiving lots of fundings from the federal government to build military at the time when the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so states like mississippi but states like georgia and texas and florida and southern california and arizona and north carolina are being transformed in the postworld war two period by the historic shift as the period of the sun belt dominance. if you think about every president elected from 1963...
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in pennsylvania at the time was an interesting law. if the slave is in the state for more than six months, he was emancipated. washington had to move his slaves back and forth between mount vernon and philadelphia to keep them from being emancipated , even though this is absolutely against the letter of the pennsylvania state law. so that is the side of the story we often don't tell. a man of his time, absolutely. during the revolution when he takes command of the continental army he goes to boston and sees black men with guns and knows he's not going to build a self this to his brethren south carolina and georgia. he stops that. eventually he changed his mind when he needed more bodies and his army peer we always have to weigh these things. they are not black-and-white issues. he was a man of his time, part of the society utterly dependent on slavery and knew he was not going to change the minds of his fellow slaveholders. we point to these founding fathers and genuinely with admiration. but this was clearly where they did not see the
in pennsylvania at the time was an interesting law. if the slave is in the state for more than six months, he was emancipated. washington had to move his slaves back and forth between mount vernon and philadelphia to keep them from being emancipated , even though this is absolutely against the letter of the pennsylvania state law. so that is the side of the story we often don't tell. a man of his time, absolutely. during the revolution when he takes command of the continental army he goes to...
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i was fortunate it was the great wall school. -- law school. i did pretty well. use serve on the law repealed and hope to clark. i was chosen by justice powell. the supreme court is an amazing institution. the only part where the senior people do all the work. the justices read the briefs it does not work that way with the president or the senators. a great institution but justice powell out of virginia was a truly extraordinary man. and learning from him and his judgments and how to trust people, how to make decisions and the courage of his convictions taught me much of what i learned about leadership. >> host: i wrote a wonderful book -- a book on walter cronkite. >> guest: a wonderful book. [applause] >> host: looking at cbs and nbc but abc came on strong and was 1/3 of the big three. how did abc news get on parity? what is the timeframe? >> abc news was the fourth thought of three. [laughter] it was very weak by all accounts. there were two nbc networks they had to spin off one but they started to build up the entertainment part. he concluded the only way to
i was fortunate it was the great wall school. -- law school. i did pretty well. use serve on the law repealed and hope to clark. i was chosen by justice powell. the supreme court is an amazing institution. the only part where the senior people do all the work. the justices read the briefs it does not work that way with the president or the senators. a great institution but justice powell out of virginia was a truly extraordinary man. and learning from him and his judgments and how to trust...